A police forensics team found what appeared to be blood stains in the bedroom of a 10-year-old boy who died in the care of his father and stepmother, the couple's murder trial heard Wednesday.

Officers noticed "reddish-brown stains" on Shakeil Boothe's mattress and sheets, on the baseboards of his room and on a boy's T-shirt crumpled under his bed, Det. Peter Duivesteyn of Peel police testified.

Ten-year-old Shakeil Boothe was found dead in a Brampton home in May of 2011. His father and stepmother are on trial for second-degree murder.

Forensics experts examined the family's home in Brampton, Ont., for three days after paramedics found Shakeil's lifeless body there on May 27, 2011.

"We had noted when we had gone in on the 28...some blood spatter in the victim's room," as well as just outside his door, the detective said.